Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-01
GAIT AND VICINITY.
4 Growing Section With Great Pos
SibilitisS.
REMARKABLE FERTILITY AND
PRODUCTIONS.
Immense Tracts OF Thousands of
Acres to be Broken Up Into
Small Farms.
EXCELLENT WATER AND TIMBER
sUPPLY-A wINTERLEss CLIMATE.
Grandest Productions of Grains, vegeta-
bles, Fruits of All Kinds, Including
Oranges, Lemons, Etc.-A First
Glass Locality for Home
seekers.
EXCELLENT WATER AND TIMBER
SUPPLY-A wINTERLEsS CLIMATE.


To where the lemon and the piercing lime
With the deep orange glowing through the
green.
Their lighter glories blend"
And green-robed Senator'S of mighty woods.
Tall oaks, branch-charIned by the earnest stars,
Dream, and so dream all night without a STIR
Gait is one of the most attractive of the
many beautiful towns to which the fer
tility of the wide Sacramento valley has
given birth. 1t is in the heart of that val
ley 80 miles from the capital of the State,
and 100 miles from San francisco, the
Queen city which sits by the Golden Gate
She possesses every possible charm and ad-
vantage in her location and surroundings
Around her are the finest oak growths in
the world, forming
GREAT OAK PARKS,
And she is surrounded by a country as
rich as the most favored garden spots of
either hemisphere. The Sacramento val
ley, east of the river is more than thirty
miles wide, every foot of which is rich,
deep alluvium. The views which meet
the eve of the resident of this " Garden
City" have every element of beauty and
grandeur. To the north is the wide
grain-laden valley as far as the eye can
reach, relieved only by the sharp outlines
of the Marysville Buttes and the great
oak parks. To the east are the lofty Sierra
Nevada mountains, rising mass above mass
till they almost reach the crown Of per-
petual snow. To the south are the blue
lines of the Coast Range, that run far out
into the San joaquin valley, and to the
west is the tall form of Mount Diablo
overlooking the valley on the one hand
and the sheltered Bay of San Francisco on
the other. In the foreground are great,
wide, branching oaks, long lines of bor-
dering trees, marking the courses of
streams, and among all these are green or
GOLDEN FIELDS OF GRAIN.
The green or gold of the grain fields are
not the only colors to be seen. All through
the ter and spring there is such floral
wealth as no other spot on earth can excel
Anything more gorgeously beautiful than
the display in valleys, on uplands, hillside
and riverside it were impossible for any
one to imagine. On every side are fields
of rich and radiant bloom, and you become
almost intoxicated watching the rainbow
colors. In places there are carnivals of
colors, in others there are flower families
where purple, blue or crimson dominate"
Along the streams, hidden under their
bordering trees, hung with the heavy cur
tains of vines, in the deep shadows there
are masses of ferns, wood-mosses, ichens,
lilies, sedges, holly-grasses and liverworts.
To the east of this rich and beautiful val
ley are found
THE ROLLING UPLANDS
That rise higher and higher from the
plains, till they gradually merge into the
foothills of the Sierras. These uplands
are warm and rich, and have tree growths
here and there that make them most at
tractive in appearance. The foothill belt
is more than twenty miles in width, and
comprises long gentle slopes, rounded
ridges and bluffs and rich hidden valleys,
through which mountain streams flow, and
around which there are timbered hill and
mountain sides. Above all these there are
the high mountains, covered with the
great forests, which are so dense as to
shade the earth-great growths of red and
sugar pines, frs, spruce, cedar, scarlet
branched manzanita and madrOna. Above
all these are the silent crests and peaks of
the Sierras.
CHOICE OF LOCATION.
The home-seeker will see that here at
Gait the "Garden City" and in her sur
rounding country, there is every choice of
locality. He can make his home on the
rich river alluvium, among great oak
parks, on the rolling uplands, in the rich
valleys and on the warm slopes of the foot
hills Or, ii he loves the shadows of the
high mountains he can find 4 home on the
higher elevations No spot of this con-
tinent presents greater diversity for To-
cations than the country which surrounds
Gait
THE AREA OF THE COUNTRY
Which surrounds the " Garden City," and
which is tributary TO her merchants and
manufacturers, is a large one. 1t extends
north and south fully thirty miles, and
east and west from the Sacramento river to
the western boundary of Amador county,
a distance of more than one hundred miles.
The area, therefore, of this tributary
country contains $500 square miles, or
1,G00,000 acres. Of this large area, 100000
acres are the richest valley lands, and one
third uplands and foothill slopes The
other third is hillsides and mountain sides,
covered with timber and grasses, affording
good grazing. There are at least a million
acres adapted to orchards, vineyards or
vegetable gardens, which, when developed,
will have production that will give the
Garden City" population of several
thousands, and trade and manufactures
and wealth in proportion.